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Mood is a black metal band from France, formed in 2023. They channel dark, atmospheric black metal from the French underground.
Mood Fragments is a black metal band from Hungary, formed in 2021. They channel dark, atmospheric black metal from the Hungarian underground.
Mood:Doom is a doom and death metal band from Finland, formed in 2011. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in melancholy and oppressive heaviness.
Moodswyng is a Stamford, Connecticut outfit blending old-school heavy metal muscle with thrash-driven aggression since 2016. Their sound sits squarely in the tradition of classic American metal, channeling the energy of the genre's formative years into a modern context.
Mookerdam is a Los Angeles band dragging death metal into the swamp, combining crushing doom weight with sludge-coated riffs and an abyssal low-end that has been their signature since forming in 2010. The band occupies the uglier, slower end of the death-doom spectrum, where tempo is a weapon and density is the point.
Moon and Azure Shadow is a Los Angeles project working in the epic and atmospheric vein of black metal, active since 2012. Their music reaches for panoramic scale — sweeping melodic passages and vast, reverb-drenched tremolo that evoke the grandiose landscapes of the genre's most cinematic practitioners.
A blackened death/doom metal act from Akureyri in northern Iceland, Moon Bearer channels the Arctic darkness of its subarctic setting into crushing, atmospheric compositions. Active since 2019, the band operates from Iceland's second city, surrounded by fjords and volcanic terrain.
Moon Chamber is a melodic heavy metal and hard rock act from England, delivering soaring melodies and twin-guitar harmonies since 2014. The band draws from the NWOBHM and AOR traditions with a modern production sensibility.
Moon Command is a Minneapolis progressive thrash outfit formed in 2015, threading the rhythmic complexity of progressive metal through the aggression and speed of thrash. The result is technically demanding but driven by the forward momentum that defines the thrash tradition.
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